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Is Electronics a Hits Business?

by Bob Raikes

The Samsung profit forecast that we mentioned in last week’s Display Monitor emphasises that not all is gloom and doom in the electronic business (although it mostly is at the moment!). It did get …

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OLEDs and Secrecy

by Bob Raikes

Some years ago, a group of academics studied the LCD industry and found that much of the rapid growth of the LCD business was a result of the cooperation between different LCD-making companies. Although …

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Sony and Samsung Pricing

by Super User

I was thinking about the TV market and it seems to me that we are at something of a turning point for the entire industry. We had a period of good growth, with the …

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How does Samsung grow its TV business?

by Bob Raikes

My attention was drawn to the news, reported by the FT, that LG and Samsung are starting to see competition in their home market of Korea from store brands and low cost brands. Although …

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Samsung sells off its LCD business

by Bob Raikes

So Samsung has decided to spin-off its LCD business into a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics and to orient its business towards OLED displays. When I first heard the rumour about the split, I …

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OLEDs, Oxides and Risk

by Bob Raikes

  One of the overall impressions of the SID this year was that there were few OLEDs on view. As I mention in the main report, published in Display Monitor, I think this is …

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Highlights from the SID 2011

by Bob Raikes

  The SID is one of my favourite shows, because of the sheer depth of technical content – it usually gives me a chance to see what will be at CES next January and …

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Please give up VGA & LVDS!

by Bob Raikes

I thought I’d pick up on another of the stories from this week’s issue, the release put out by the big PC and chip companies in support of a switch to DisplayPort and HDMI. …

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Apple TV?

by Bob Raikes

This is an editorial that I wrote in Display Monitor in March 2010. Most of what I said still seems relevant today!Bob   Once again, rumours of a possible move by Apple into the …

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